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Juvenile law
gateway tech. college
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Criminal Justice
Undergraduate 1
02/04/2013

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Corporal punishment
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Bodily harm
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father of his country
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gave king guardianship/ parens patriae
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poor laws
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children forced to work for wealthy families, who in turn taught them trade, and farming
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puritan oeriod
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sinful
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child savers
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believed that a childs environment could make them "bad"
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first juvenile court
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1899
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medical model
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model of individual diagnosis and individual treatment
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juvenile court act
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federal government passed in 1938
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4 d's of juvenile justice system
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deinstitutionalization, diversion, due process, decriminalization
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justice model
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unlawful behavior
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deterrence
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uses punnishment or the threat of other sanctions either formal or informal to prevent future law breaking by showing that there are concequences.
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self-reports
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one to one interviews, surveys, and anonymous questioners
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youth are not arrested, they are....
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in custody (not crimilizing children)
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adjudication
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trial (key is that is ends in -tion)
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adjudicated
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convicted (key is the -ed)
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disparity
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refers to a difference but not necessarily involving discrimination
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discimination
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refers to unfair treatment of a specific group
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juvenile court act passed in
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1938
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decriminalization
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makes status offenses noncriminal acts
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due process
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requires that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property
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justice model
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the judicial process wherein young people who come into conflict with the law are held responsible and accountable for their n behavior
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deterrence
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uses punishment or the threat of other sanctions either formal or informal to prevent future law breaking by showing there are consequences to aberrant behavior
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deserts
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or just deserts is a concept of punishment as a kind of justified revenge
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natural law
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the rules of conduct that are the same everywhere because they are basic to human behavior
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social contract
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where free independent individuals agree to form a community and give up a portion of there individual freedom to benefit the security of the group
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consensus theory
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holds that individual within a society agree on basic values
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conflict theory
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suggests that laws are established to keep the dominant class in power
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classical view
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says humans are responsible for there own actions
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incapacitation
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consequence for criminal activity
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positivist view
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says that humans are shaped by their own society and are the products of environmental and culture influences
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determinism
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views human behaviors as the product of multiple environmental and cultural influences rather than a single factor
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heritability
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the degree to which genetic influence traits or behaviors
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rational theory
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argues that crime and delinquency are products of conscious decisions made by individuals who rationally weigh, in advance, the costs and benefits of there illegal behavior
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routine activity theory
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sometimes called victimization theory because it includes in it an element of culpability
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biosocial perspective of crime and delinquency
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hold that propensity for criminal behavior is heritable and interacts with the environment, a theory supported by evidence derived from a variety of studies
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psychological theories
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explaining crime contend that individual differences in thinking or emotion regulation can explain why some people commit crime and others do not
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sociological theories
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include social disorganization, functionalism, anomie, or strain theory and social control theories
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social ecology theory
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suggests that ecological conditions predicted delinquency and that gang membership is a normal response to social conditions
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social disorganization theory
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contended that urban areas produced delinquency directly by weakening community controls
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functionalization
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crime and deviance serve several "greater" purposes for society like:
promoting social solidarity
clarifying and maintaining social boundaries
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